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Weekly Garden Giveaway

Congratulations to Deb H, the winner of this week’s Garden Giveaway! Thanks to everyone who submitted comments this week, and stay tuned next week for another fabulous giveaway!

Welcome to another Avant Garden Weekly Garden Giveaway! This week we are featuring a beautiful CobraCo® 26” Rounded Coco-Lined Floor Planter. Add elegance to your outdoor living area with this large capacity, round floor planter.

Perfect for any balcony, porch, or patio, the CobraCo® 26” Rounded Coco-Lined Floor Planter’s coco-liner adds a natural element, while the scroll design creates a decorative appeal. The planter is finished in black and measures 26” wide and 14.5” high.

Like to garden, but lack the time, the space or even a yard? Decorating a deck or patio? Want to grow some herbs or vegetables for cooking? If so, you might consider trying container gardening. Container planters, available in a wide variety of styles, shapes and sizes, offer you considerable gardening versatility. If space is an issue, you can grow your container plants on a balcony, deck, patio, porch – or even a doorstep – while creating an attractive decorative display as an additional benefit. Or maybe you’re seeking a convenient way to grow a few vegetables and herbs. A single tomato plant and some potted herbs may meet your needs.

Choose containers that reflect your own sense of style and design and complement your home and outdoor space. But take into account how well they help–or hinder–plant growth. There are many sizes, shapes, and materials from clay, wood, plastic, or ceramic from which to choose. A good choice for container planting with proper drainage is all natural coco liners. They make great container liners, particularly for wire and metal planters, stands and hanging baskets. They keep soil in and aid in keeping it moist. Coco liners also can be used with hard-wall planters. Plus, coco is naturally resistant to insects, bacteria, fungi, mold and diseases. Known for their excellent drainage and aeration properties, coco liners promote visibly better, faster plant growth by rehydrating easily while preventing root rot.

Generally speaking, most plants can grow in containers. The size of the container should be chosen based on the plants you choose. Make sure your container provides ample space for the plant to develop roots.

CobraCo® 26” Rounded Coco-Lined Floor Planter Specifications:
• Size: 26″ W x 14.5″ H
• Finished in black
• Round planter with scroll design
• Includes coco-liner
• For displaying your plants/flowers

Remember, all you need to do to enter this week’s giveaway contest is enter a comment on this post for a chance to win! The winner will be chosen at random on Wednesday, June 14th. Comments will only be visible to the public after the contest ends.

Weekly Garden Giveaway

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Congratulations, Nancy! You are this week’s Garden Giveaway Winner! Thanks to everyone who left comments this week!

Even if you didn’t win, we have special discounts on our decorative planters now through April 30th to celebrate National Gardening Month! Just use the discount code “AGDFBDP” at checkout!

This week we are excited to feature our CobraCo® Scroll Braided Style Hanging Basket for the Weekly Garden Giveaway!

Hanging baskets plants can transform an ordinary porch, filling it with color and aroma and bringing it to life. But you need to select hanging basket plants and liners that not only look good, but that will also thrive. CobraCo® hanging baskets are perfect to show off your seasonal foliage. Made of rust-resistant metal, these baskets are constructed to remain durable. Our lovely CobraCo® Scroll Braided Style Hanging Basket will add a charming touch to any deck, patio, or garden with its lovely design and bronze rust resistant finish. An eco-friendly coco liner and a hanging chain are included for ease in displaying your gorgeous plants and flowers. This hanging basket is perfect for trailing vines, too!

All you have to do is submit a comment to be entered to win!

Now on Sale – Plant Stands are Great for Decorating Indoors and Outdoors

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Now for a Limited Time…Buy one plant stand and get the second one for 50% off the purchase price.
A wide variety of heights, styles, finishes and colors are available. Mix and match indoors or outdoors to create your own distinctive display of the container plants, foliage and flowers that you love.

Balcony Gardening

Container Gardening

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What’s the best thing about gardening using containers? The answer? Anybody can do do it!

Beginner or advanced gardener. Homeowner or renter. Large yard, small yard. No yard. Deck, patio, porch, front steps, balcony, roof…window boxes. Grow flowers, foliage, vegetables and herbs for display and decoration, fragrance and recipe ingredients. Whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever you want to grow…the opportunities for container gardening are limitless.

Container planters, available in a wide variety of styles, shapes and sizes, offer you the most gardening versatility.

Virtually any container can be used: wire and metal baskets lined with coconut coir, Continue reading →

Plants and Privacy

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Plants can be the perfect solution if you want to bring a little privacy to your backyard deck or patio.

Assuming you don’t have a major problem that requires fencing or the long term planting of hedges and screening plants such as evergreen, cypress and arboretum, some strategic planning and gardening may be all you require.

You probably don’t want your deck or patio enclosed on all sides. Perhaps you only want to create a secluded place to relax, or to block out an unwanted object on the perimeter. The main idea is to use plants to create some screening between you and the rest of the world. Adding height, creating corners and using blocking elements can Continue reading →

Decorating a Small Space with Plants

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Not everyone has a large backyard, a place for a sprawling deck, patio, or room for a vegetable garden or flower beds. But that’s no reason to turn your back on outdoor gardening.

Use some greenery and your condo or apartment balcony, a smaller porch, deck or patio can be transformed into a lush garden, an outdoor retreat or a culinary resource.

Container planting of flowers and foliage in free-standing pots and planters or displayed on decorative plant stands can add color while bringing an extra dimension of design to your space.

With little space on the ground, think about hanging flower baskets overhead and Continue reading →

Container Gardening

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Like to garden, but lack the time, the space or even a yard? Decorating a deck or patio? Want to grow some herbs or vegetables for cooking? If so, you might consider trying container gardening.

Container planters, available in a wide variety of styles, shapes and sizes, offer you considerable gardening versatility.

If space is an issue, you can grow your container plants on a balcony, deck, patio, porch – or even a doorstep – while creating an attractive decorative display as an additional benefit.

Or maybe you’re seeking a convenient way to grow a few vegetables and herbs. A single tomato plant and some potted herbs may meet your needs.

Choose containers that reflect your own sense of style and design and complement Continue reading →

Growing Herbs

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Herbs are easy to grow, indoors and out, winter and summer, for decoration, aroma or for cooking. The biggest problem you may face in growing herbs is deciding what you want to grow.

Herb Types
As a gardener, you need to know that herbs are either annual, biennial or perennial. Annuals bloom one season and then die. Biennials live for two seasons, and bloom the second season only. Once established, perennials bloom each season.

Annuals include anise, basil, chervil, coriander, and dill; parsley and caraway are biennials; perennials include chives, fennel, marjoram, mint, tarragon, and thyme.

Herbs for Cooking
If you’re interested in culinary herbs, but not sure what you might want to grow, survey Continue reading →